The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Youth Conference Votes For One United National Youth Day Illinois Youth Meeting Has Delegates from 30,500 Workers Na- ration evening ng over students rence called by e Against War Section, at the ations. (By a print- error, the Daily Wor demon day reported 4,11 presented, in- stead of 41,500) The conference unanimously de- cided that its arrangements com- mittee meet with the arrangements cor ee of the Socialist-control- led 3 h conference h last week and work out detailed pl: for one parade and meeting on May 30. The decision for unity came after a delegation led by Ben Fisher of the Young People’s Socialist League had proposed unity on four points on which he wanted the conference to agree in addition to any points proposed by the conference which would be acceptable to the Y. P. S& L. His points were Against the U. S. fleet maneu- May 31 in N. Y. harbor. 2. Against the attack of police on four members of the Y. P. S. L. in a youth demonstration last May 30. 1 v 3. Against terror of Mendieta’ government against Cuban student 4. Against the deportation of four individuals (names unknown) from Holland to Germany. Discuss Plans Jointly The united front conference Sun- day decided that all details as to time and place of the demonstration will be decided by both committees jointly and that organization may raise their own slogans so long as they pertained to the struggle against war and fascism. Resolutions were passed based on the anti- , anti-fascist struggle, for the freedom of Ernst Thaelman, leader of the German Communist Party and all anti-fascist prisoners, against the fleet maneuvers May 31 greeting the sailors of the fleet and urging them to join in the anti-war struggle, protesting the murder of five Alabama coal miners. Many Youth Groups Represented esented at the conference fifteen shops and sixteen including five A. F. of L 30 social and athletic clubs, 3 dent clubs and organizations, settlement houses and a Y. M. H. A.} branch, six Young Circle League branches, 12 anti-war groups, besides | numerous fraternal and workers’| organizations and the Youth Sec- tion of the American Jewish Con- SS. Repr we: Workers Urged to Pack Court Trial Of Anti-Fascists NEW YORK. — Workers and anti-fascists are urged to pack the court on 57th St. between Lexington and Third Aves. to- morrow (Wednesday) morning at 9 o'clock when the five wi for trial | | Suppress News of Birmingham Strike Sent Daily Worker (Continued from Page 1) pass on the highly inflammatory matter contained in the dispatches and we therefore returned them to the address listed stop The con- tents strictly propaganda.” As for the contents of this tele- | gram, we don’t require the serv- ices of Mr. Pinkhard in determin- ing whether these were “two propaganda dispatches” or what they were. They were news dis- | patches to our paper. We will de- | termine here whether they con- tained material that should be used or not. The same applies to | his reference to “the highly in- flammatory matter.” We will pass | on whether material reaching us is inflammatory or not. | As for the question of press rates, we are a daily newspaper, | maintaining business relations with your office. We are entitled to press rates on messages sent to us; and, again, we do not expect that Mr. Pinkard will determine whether messages will be paid for at press rates or at some other rates. His business is to send to us the messages that are filed for | our paper. We place this matter very sharply, because to place it other- wite would be to acquiesce in | what obviously is an attempt on the part of people in the South to censor the press. We have no in- tention to acquiesce in such a policy. I, therefore, ask action on the two demands made aboye, namely, that these messages be dispatched | to our paper at once; and, sec- | ondly, that your office provide guarantees that in the future this effort at local censorship be abol- ished. | We desire a statement from your office at once on this matter, as we are making public all ma- | | Spots of the strike. The arrangements committee of terial pertaining to this high- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934 Seamen and Cooks 290,000 Moscow Workers Pay '|Presdent Refuses Demonstrate With Last Tribute To Menzhinsk y| Frisco Dockers (Continued from Page 1) eel Inventor, Daisy Matthews, Golden Horn, F. J. Luckenbach, San Pedro, Steel Exporter, Ohian, Tilla- mook, ral Senn. Demands of the king crews’ are based on the code of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The sea- men are demanding the 1929 wage Other ships are due to strike at any minute. The seamen on many} of the ships have very little leader- ship, due to the strikebreaking ac- tivities of the leaders of the Inter- national Seamen’s Union. Many members of the I. S, U. to the hall of the Marine cers Industrial Union and are tearing up their A. F. of L. books. The M. W. I. U. has recruited a large number of new members. Side by side with the striking longshoremen the seamen who have struck on the ships are picketing the docks. All seamen who go to the ngshoremen’s strike headquarters are sent directly to the United Front Seamen's strike committee where the strike forces are being dis- tributed. Joseph P. Ryan due in San Pedro today, according to press re- ports, which is one of the weak His aim will be undoubtedly to split the deep water) is dockers away from the coastwise the prototype of a Bolshevik hero| Bolshevik. More than 290,000 filed | men. Leaders of the defunct I. W. W. |are reported to be active in San) - Pedro attemtping to divide the sea- | men and longshoremen. and longshoremen are now frater- nizing on all occasions. Relief stations for the strikers are | functioning well. Teamsters have | yoted not to handle scab cargo. | The Western Worker, official West Coast organ of the Communist | Party, was sold in thousands of | copies during the great Solidarity | Parade yesterday. | Meanwhile 500 seamen at a mass meeting held last night voted for the main demands of the Marine| Workers Industrial Union, for the 1929 scale, abolition of the Fink Halls and to establish a centralized shipping buro under the control of | a rank and file committee of sea- | men. : A waier patrol of seamen to visit | the ships in the harbor was started today by the United Front Seamen’s | Strike Committee. | “So far the strike is in the bag,”| said Sam C. Telford, Chairman of| the Seamen’s Strike Committee. | “The chief danger lies in the nego- | |tiations that are being carried on} between the shipowners and the | leadérs of the LL.A. We must not/ allow these fakers to isolate the} seamen from the stevedores.” | * * Strike Solid in Aberdeen | ABERDEEN, Wash., May 14—The| piego, and after they have been longshoremen’s strike is solid here. Offers for mediation were turned) down flat by the strikers. | Lem Standing Together in San Diego SAN DIEGO, Calif., (By Mail) —| (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 14, (By Radio). — The urn containing the ashes of Comrade Viacheslav Menzhinsky was yesterday placed in the Krem- lin wall, to rest besides the other great deceased heroes of the prole- tarian revolution. For two days the coffin of the de-| ceased chairman of the United State | Political Department (OGPU) rested | in state at the House of Trade| Unions. The former Hall of Col-| umns which houses the trade unions | was filled with flowers. The coffin was placed in the center of the hug hall. Hundreds of thousands of workers filed passed the coffin and gazed at the peaceful face of the deceased | Comrade Menzhinsky, a genuine| friend of millions of toilers, and a menacing enemy to those who open- ly or secretly were trying to prevent the working class from building its new life. Around the coffin stood relatives | and comrades in the Party, in the struggle, from the underground bat- tles and from his days of emigra- tion. The guard of honor at the coffin was changed every five min- | utes, | The columns of Moscow toilets who came to pay their last fare- well to this fallen fighter, slackened their pace as they passed the cof-| fin, imprinting on their memories who gave his life for the Party and | the working class, | Ever new thousands of toilers en- tered the vi lowered their banners in homage to the deceased | 1 | A FALLEN FIGHTER Viacheslav Menzhinsky, deceased veteran Bolshevik, former head of the United State Political Depart- ment (OGPU) who was recently | buried in Moscow. | passed the coffin of Comrade Men- | zhinsky. Seamen| Workers to picket militantly, and agents), pointed out that Neary’s wrotig tac- | of the strike. The Communist Party also issued another leaflet, headed, “Don’t Scab.” These leaflets were issued to the flop houses, missions and employment agencies, notifying the workers of the strike, and call- ing upon them not to scab, Warn Scabs Scabs have been beaten up and warned to stay off the docks. An- Service Bureau, a fink hall, which} has been furnishing scabs to the! shippers, was also beaten. It has been ascertained that the city police department has been| furnishing cars that are used to| convey strikebreakers to the docks. | Information on the beating of scabs | was suppressed in the local news-| papers for two days. This was done workers of San Diego ignorant of the strike, in order that the ship- pers might get scabs moré easily. The Communist Party is issuing another leaflet to the striking long- shoremen, pointing out that San Diego is a strategic spot on the coast and that if the shippers in| Pedro and Los Angeles get the idea that the picketing here is weak, tics would lead to the break down | thony Akker, head of the Marine| in order to keep the unemployed they will send their boats to San unloaded send the cargos by rail. Very few boats have docked heré since the beginning of the strike. However tomorrow a boat is ex- pected in the harbor. . jissue of the Daily Worker, including Frank Sweet, Jorgensen and Bill Hill. Sailors Desert The Ernest H. Meyer, enroute to/ San Francisco, stopped at Long- view, where the sailors deserted. The ship came on to Astoria with no crew except the captain, mates and firemen. It stopped in Astoria for loading on some flour and but- ter, but had to go on without this cargo. Coast Guard Men Won't Scab The steamer Admiral Evans, idle | at Astoria since last October, was| moved to Portland. The company intends to use this ship to house and feed strikebreakers. Failing to get men to release the lines, the company asked the local Coast} Guard unit “Redwing” to do this| favor, but were bluntly refused.) Finally the tug crew had to chop the line in order to release it. The. greatest solidarity is éx- pressed by all workers, including | saw mill workers, jitney drivers, | truck drivers and unemployed. Rie fines | (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., May 14.—A leaf-| let on the West Coast strike, issued by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union here, has raised a storm of demands from International Long- shoremen’s Association members, who want to know why officials have remained quiet. One thousand copies of Monday’s dis- | diction to close banks to save bank- | he upholds legal lynching.” | preachers, | and sat intensely silent when Mother | | | To Hear Plea of 5 ScottshoroMothers —<—___ iconinued irom Poe 1) | Workers’ Sports- fails to guard the constitutional | rights of its citizens. The State of | ¢¢ Alabama is denying life and liberty | to nine of its citizens—and the case | involves not only nine innocent} lives, but the rights of 13,000,000) Negroes in America, the rights of all | oppressed people in this country.”| Citing the precedent for action by the President that exists in} President Wilson's intervention on} behalf of Tom Mooney, following | world-wide workinemen’s protests, | Moore also pointed out that Pre: dent Roosevelt entered state juris- reported on matters suc dressing grievances.” The quotation is from| Louis Stark’s article in yes-| terday’s N. Y. Times. On the) very day that we examined in this space the purpose of the company athletic association, the reverend sheet, which publishes all the news that’s fit to print, grandly gilds the lily. It was through the insistence of the offi-| cials of the General Motors Corp.,! We learn from Mr, Stark, that the/ company union representatives were} present at this meeting which was} arranged in order to settle the auto- mobile strike. The presence of these “stool-pigeons” (as such char- acters were properly referred to by the other union men) was made! possible, we learn further, through} the connivance of the Automobile Labor Board, which invited them| over the protests of the representa-| tives of the others’ bodies. The Automobile Board évidently beliéves| that baseball games and dancing bothers the workers in the aiito-/ mobile plants as much as wages, conditions of employment and the methods of redressing grievances, aig 3 ers; that he eagerly moves into state jurisdiction to shield the chil- dren of the rich from kidnaping; that if he still refuses to speak, “We can only draw the conclusion that 300 Sympathizers Hear Mothers The mothers last night spoke at & meeting of some 300 sympathizers —Civic Association representatives, | a jim-crowed Gold Star Mother, | class-conscious workers, | whites and Negroes of many strata, who began their meeting by sing+ ing “Onward Christian Soldiérs,” Norris said: “And when you, friends, | get a chance to vote, I want you to| vote for the Communists, because it’s they and the International Labor Defense that’s kept our boys alive this far.” The audience con- tributed cash and pledges sufficient to send the mothers home to Tennessee and Georgia. That was in a working Class neighborhood, however, Today in the Governmental stronghold of the employer class, at the White House, the mothers and their friends met the full, naked force of brutality. Armed red-squaddets, secret ser- vice and White House policemen met them at the White House gates, they shouted “No pictures” and then, “We have orders against any Pictures being made against the background of the White House.” They attempted to prevent the dele- gation from distributing a copy of the mothers’ plea to the press, order- ing, “Don’t try to distribute any leafiéts here.” They pushed Wil- liana Burroughs, New York Negro school teacher and former Commu- nist candidate for Comptroller, until Bernhard Ades of the I. L. D. called out, “Don’t get so hard.” The mothers, who have seen their sons an average of once a year, started home later, Mother Williams saying, “I’m gonna go back and work all the harder to save our boys,” and Mother Patterson add- ing, “So am I.” To McIntyre, the latter said, “I’m Heywood’s mother. I'm sorty I can’t see thé Président! because I wanted to tell him ‘Give| me Heywood so my mind won't go; unbalance.’ I wanted to tell him.” “T sympathize with you,” the Sec- retary interrupted. | is obvious that these athletic as- sociations, like the company unions, of which they are part and parcel, have no concern for the workers. Even their management is confined to a small group. Not only do they try to distract the workers from genuine union activity; they function as a brake to the general participation of workers in athletics, These com- | pany athletic associations have ingrained in them not the ama- | teur, but the pt-fessional, pur- pose of victory. Rarely do they emerge in any kind of contest without as high a sum of money ak can be collected being wagered on either side, with the approval and aid of the employers. They have not even the minor purpose of providing recreation for} the employees. Their activity is to create enthusiasm among the host of workers in behalf of a winning few. When it cannot win legiti- mately there is not a company athleti¢ association in the country which hesitates to employ ritigers. | ‘The way to combat these weapons of the émployers is for workers to organize their own athletic teams. The workers in the factories, in thé business establishments, must or- ganize their own union teams, in opposition to the company ones, Thé } ~ WILLIAM FUCHS ~ T THE Cleveland meeting the company union officers and drinking water adequacy, while the union group dis- cussed wages, conditions of employment and methods of re- -Not Bosses’ h as baseball games, dancing | jathlete-lackeys of the bosses must be exposed for what they are. We must use this instrument against the S as they use it against us. A workers’ sports movement in the shops and offices is now sadly lacked. In our hands athletics are & means for the recreational and physical benefit of all the workers, not the purple of a favored and {\ starring few. In our hands athletics || ate a means of enforcing the work- ers against the fascists. Let us not forget that the fascistization of athletics is rapidly going on in this country. Here enters the Labor Sports Union. It is the sharpest foe of the boss-controlled athletic asso- clations; it is a genuine organiza- tion of workers. It does not em_ ploy any ringers. It must be one of the bulwarks against fascism. The path is plain: Organize work- ers’ athletic clubs in your shops atid offices and join the Labor Sports Union, * * . 'HE New York District of the La« bor Sports Union has organized in preparation for National Youth Day, which is on May 30; four street runs oh May 26 and one on May 27, There will be Downtown, Harlem, Bronx, Borough Park and Brownse ville runs. The Red Sparks, the Harlem Prolets, the Kaytee, the Spartactis and the I. W. O. Youth Branch of Brownsville have ar- rafiged the courses. From the Labor Sports Union in Los Angeles comes the following: The ceftral headquarters of the Labor Sports Union in Los Angeles is to be the Cultural Center at 230 8. Spring St. Ten athletic organ- izations were represented at the meeting which decided upon the place. Boys’ night will be Tuesday, beginning May 15. Girls’ night will be on Thursday, beginning May 17. On June 1 a large affair will be held to celebrate the rebirth of the La- bor Sports Union in Los Angeles, An open Table Tennis (ping- pong) Tourney, singles and doubles, for the championship of Manhattan will take place Thursday night, May 17, at 64 Second Ave., under the auspices of thé Red Sparks A. C, with the sanction of the Labor Sports Union. Sol. Schiff, of. the Y. M. H. A, the national champion, is scheduled to perform. On June 16 the Young Pioneer Track and Field Meet will take place at Ulmer Park. And more to come. Keep your eye peeled, pard! Secretary Snaps at Mother Williams “I come over a thousand miles to see the President,” Mother Williams resumed. ‘I’m sorry he won't seé us because our nine boys has been in jail three years—innocent. All of them is fatherless excepting one, BASEBALL | tributed among the longshoremen, | both conferences will meet tonight! | Striking longshoremen of San Diego} | Astoria Longshoremen 100 Per handed attempt at censorship and the muzzling of the press, both in the Daily Worker and other news- papers. to make final plans. The great demand for a united May 30 demonstration compelled the Y. P. 8S. L. delegation, who had come to the conference with the Sincerely yours, | ate standing together with their fel-} Cent In Strike |low workers along the Coast, mili-| as7oORIA, Oregon (By Mail) —| | tantly refusing to allow scabs to un- ‘Two hundred Astoria longshoremen | j load the boats. | supported the rank and file strike Neary, head of the local I.L.A.,/ call from San Francisco by joining intention of raising minor points of | agreements which they hoped the| conference would find difficult to) accept, to agree to a joint meeting of the two arrangements commit- tees. * (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, May 14.—Thirty thou- sand five hundred youth sent their | eur © Cc. A. HATHAWAY, Editor Daily Worker. | Civil Liberties Protest | Public repudiation of the refusal of the Birmingham manager of the Western Union to transmit dis- * * | patches on the Alabama coal strike,| sent. out by a Communist reporter to the Daily Worker, was urged on {union would pursue a policy of announced a few days ago, at the beginning of the strike, that the “peaceful picketing.” The Commu- nist Party at San Diego immediately | issued two leaflets, calling upon the Brod the strike on May 9. The Hamburg American Line, a German steamship, was loaded with 60 tiers of salmon on the night of May 10 by the local staff of the} Astoria Stevedoring Co, (local were received with enthusiasm. The sentiment of the men is un- doubtedly that they will not touch scab-handled ships. Any feeling against the failure of | the West Coast to support the 1931} Boston strike seems to be disap-| pearing rapidly. | A favorable response met the dis- tribution of a leaflet issued by the Rank and Filé Committee, calling | for solidarity action, Terror that’s Heywood. They went off to hunt for work, and got framed up like that.” “You is some woman’s son .. .” Mother Williams was going to ask him to try to imagine his mother 8! a Detroit at Washington. GAMES TODAY than, Potter, Harréll, Liske and Lewis. AMERIC, Montreal 002 100 i2x—-6 9 RICAN LEAGUE Moore and Atwood; Pomorski, Collier Cleveland at New York, 3:15. | and Stack. All other games postponed. t. Louis at Philadelphia. Ihicago at Boston. NATIONAL LEAGUE pleading for him, but he shapped her off abruptly, “Oh, every man is some woman’s son.” At the door meanwhile, a well- dressed elderly colored woman was saying to a guard, “I’ve prayed all New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at St, Louis. Boston at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Cincinnatt. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 52 000 100-8 10 3 night for the Scottsboro Boys.” No! Boston 000 001 o10-2 4 3 one in the delegation knew her. Earnshaw and Ruel; H. Johnson, Grove | and Ferrell. | Detroit 040 100-5 7 0) Washington 000 000-0 2 3) (Called end 6th; rain) DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M CAthedral 8-6160 400 Jobless March delegates to the State Conference | Newcomb Carlton, chairman of the Sorrell and Cochrane; Crowder; Ptim eee aria td a Board of Western Union, in a téle-| a . ii en ONAL LEAGUE Dr. D. BRO wW N lay. The same day, a few hundred | gram sent today by the American| 2 Ee SE z oR eae yrs ees 0) S ] t A New York 000 001 001 02 7 1 Dentist Uberals, Socialists and assorted | Civil Liberties Union and signed by (Coltinued from Page 1) Order, a fraternal organization, was | told Police Ohiéf Holmes that T de- Nn satvation rmy | cage MANcUtOS WALAERO Ang preachers met in the Morrison Hotel | Harry F. Ward, chairman; Roger Visiting Jeanette Williams, & white — Schumacher and’ Mancuso; Warneké and 317 LENOX AVENUE to listen to the Christian Socialist | team of Sherwood Eddy and Nor- man Thomas lecture on the same | subject. At the Youth Conference 140 del- egates from over @ hundred or- ganizations hammered out & pro-| gram of united strugzlé against | imperialist war. | The question of organizing the} fight against Fascism and war in the factories, schools and neighbor- | hoods, the organization immediately | of the greatest mass support for| National Youth Day, May 30, the} establishment of a broad committee | of the youth of Ilinois to co- ordinate all activities in the State, | and the planning of local confer-| ences took up the time of the Youth | Conference. | Delegates from the Youth Con-| | ganda N. Baldwin, director, and A. lL. Wirin, counsel. Suppression of the reports on the ground that they contained propa- constituted “unwarranted censorship and unlawful interfer- ence with freedom of the press,” according to the A. C. L. U. N. Y. Men Plan To Spread Strike To Other Docks (Continued from Page 1) ference got the floor at the Mor-| with O'Toole is one Jim Walsh, who rison, when the crowd applauded | has his name on the door of the their demand to speak. They urged| O'Toole Agency. ; united action. At last reports the; The Marine Workers’ Industrial question was still buried in the res-| Union issued a leaflet on the docks olutions committee. | National Guardsmen at the Youth Conference spoke, through letters sent to the chait, pledging their/ support for the work, An anon: Mhous guardsman was elected to the State Youth Anti-war Committee. 100 Musicians Attend | Funeral of R. Becher. NEW YORK.—Following their membershp meeting yesterday, about 100 members of the Associated Mu- sicians of Greater New York (Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians) gathered before their headquarters, Yorkville Casino, 210 F. 66th Gt., with banners announc- ing that the union members would certy on the fight for local auto-| nomy in which Richard Becher, murdered last week, played an ac- tive part. | Then, after going into the union hall, they left for Elmhurst, Queens, to attend the funeral of the slain musician. Mrs. Becher is still in a/ eritical condition, with four bullet | wounds fired by the same man who! killed her husband. rear The second story on the internal struggles in the A. F. of M., origi-| exposing the strikebreakers and de- manding that they be put out of business. Read Daily Worker Over a thotisand copies of the Daily Worker were sold and dis- tributed on the waterfront yester- day. Every Worker, munists distribute the “Dailies.” Joseph R. Ryan's latest maneuver to stop the spread of the dock strike in New York was revealed in a statement of Ryan to the press, wherein he said he had an agree- ment with railroad representatives and the Produce Exchange to boy- cott the Mallory piers. It is clear that Ryan through tis maneuver expects to pin the of the longshorémen on thé railto2: companies, whose chief interést is to break the strike. | This is obviously another new strike-breaking trick out of Mr. Ryan’s inexhaustible bag. The rail- | roads are reported to have agreed | to boycott the Mallory piers in or- | der to keep the strike from spread- ing to the entire waterfront. The new trick fits in neatly with Ryan's no-picket edict. Ryan and the railroads will make any kind of promises to stop the spread of the nally announced for today’s issue | strike, to keep the mén from picket- of the Daily Worker, will appear | tomorrow, ing and relying on their own or- | ganized strength. striker had a Daily) Rank ahd file members of | the Socialist Party helped the Com-/| |of New York, the Negro girl who | was arrested, pointing out that no | charge | following the murder of two Negto miners: ‘REDS LINKED |MINE VIOLENCE.” In the same | issue there is a hypocritical editorial declaring that ‘These shootings and ambushes ate most shocking and deplorable.’ |. “The following day the Birming- ham Age-Herald came out with a stteamer headline announcing, ‘RE- INFORCED TROOPS PATROL MINES.’ In a long editorial it ap- pealed to the A. F. of L. leaders to use ‘labor statesmanship in such a crisis,’ and called attention to the fact that ‘Negroes have been con- spicuous in demonstrations and other activities. What the arming of people who nurse their own racial grievances could lead to must be left to the imagination’.” The ILD. attorney, who is chief | counsel in the Scottsboro frame-up and who has for yeats defended | workers in labor trials, graphically | described the rounding the arrest of six organiz- ers—five white men and one Negto | woman—in Birmingham recently. | “This raid was a result of the increasing militancy of the strik- ing miners and the fact that the Negro and white miners were fighting on the picket line side by sidé,” Brodsky said, | “The arrests were made under the direction of assistant chief of po- lice of Birmingham, Mullens, who came neither with a warrant of ar- rest or a search warrant,” Brodsky continued. “He seized everybody in the house, and then called the patrol wagon which took the work- ers to the City Hall. The police seized all the literature, papers and books found, and put their own lock on the door of the house. Although no charge was placed against the workers, they were ‘mugged’ and fingerprinted. Louise Thompson Jailed “That night I got out a writ of habeas corpus for Louise Thompson, circumstances sur- had been placed either against her or the other workers. The police thereupon placed A charge of ‘vagrancy’ against Louise and the other jailed workers. Louise Thompson, who was on a tour for the International Workers’ friend in Birmingham, at whose home the police raid was made, “After I got out @ write of habeas corpus for Louise Thompson, who had in the meantime been transfer- ted to the Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham, where the Scottsboro boys ate held,” Brodsky continued, “I went over to the city jail and Alabama Miners’ Ranks Are Solid (Continued from Page 1) Party is moving forward with thou- sands expected to mass at the Court, House on Thursday to demand the release of the militant workers who go on trial on that day. The spirit of the arrested work- ers are high. The following mes- sage was delivered by the arrested strikers to the hands of the Scotts- boro boys who are in this jim- crow jail (Jefferson County Court- house, Birmingham, Ala.). “We white workers pledge to carry on the fight for your free- dom and the freedom of all work- ers, inside and outside. We pledge to help break your solitary con- finement and the refusal of the authorities to deliver the Daily Worker to you. The I. L. D. is mobilizing a greater fight for your freedom and against the N. A. A. C. P. treacherous action. The Bir- mingham workers, both white and Negro, are on the march for our common victory.” All intellectuals, all workers, Professionals, ete, should im- mediately launch a vigorous pro- test throughout the entire nation in order to forestall the action of the Grand Jury which is now pre- paring murder charges against some of those now under arrest in order to break the strike move- ment. Rush an immediate flood of protest telegrams to demand the unconditional release of these in- nocent workers. Send protests at | once to Solicitor Bailes, and Judge Abernathy, at the Jefferson County Court House, | time, was arrested at the same time (his assistant be present during the | entire interview. ‘Mr. Brodsky, if anything happens manded to know what charges were pending against them, and that 1} was going to gét out writs of habeas corpus to force their release. ‘We'll file charges against them,’ the chief retorted, whereupon they were held on a charge of ‘vagrancy.’ “The following day police raided the Southern office of the LL.D. and arrested Laura Stark, the district secretary. Heré too the arrest was made without a warrant. An ILL.D. attorney from New York, E. Raco- lin, who was in the office at the as Laura Stark. Racolin, however, was detained for only about an hour, however; he was released when he told the police that he had an appointment with me and that I was waiting for him. Insulted Organizers “The police flung insults at the organizers when they were arrested,” Brodsky recounted. A special target for abuse was Louise Thompson, the Negro girl, ‘Which one of these fel- lows are you a mistress for, you black bastard!’ the police sheered. Later, in order to frighten here, one of the cops shouted to another, ‘Jim, you better arrange for that KKK meéting tonight.’ ‘We'll talk to her through the tubes tonight,’ referring to the hollow rubber hose used to administer the third degree.” During his visit to Birmingham Brodsky paid a visit to the Scotts- boro boys in the Jefferson County Prison. Five of the boys—all but Charlie Weems — are still held in solitary confinement, the lawyer re- ported. Two of the boys, Heywood Patterson and Charlie Nottis ate in the death cell in Kilby prison, at Montgomery, Ala. “I asked Sheriff Hawkin’s son, who is the assistant sheriff, how long he intended t6 keep the boys in solitary, and he answered that he “didn’t know,” Brodsky said. The LL.D. attorney visited Pat- terson and Norris in their death cells in Kilby prison, but the warden would not permit Brodsky to see them alone and insisted that he and “Heywood Patter- son asked me to deliver this mes- sage in the very presence of the glowering warden and his assistant: to me I want you to know that it Municipal Flop House Hartnett, Tate. Between 196th & 126th Bt, N.Y.6. INLERNALIONAL LEAGUE - Joins With S.A. Lodge | ani : a Fy Es i ; Milétead, NEW YORK. — Four hundred | and ut nae a nae ; homeless unemployed men, resident us 30 D N § Hi k of the Salvation Army controlled | Baltimore mt weed r. N.S. HanoKa Gold shed eae val rg McCloskey and Taylor; Hilcher and Dental Surgeon Lodgii + | Crouch. of the Selvation Army today, | Newark 061 010 900-8 12 3 265 West 41st Street fices of the Salvation Army AY. | Rochester Dh Meek: te Massing at Union Square at 1:30,|" Makoveky, Tamulis and Glenn; Kaut- New York City the men, resisting the provocation of dozens of mounted police who rode into their ranks in an attempt to head them off, marched in orderly ranks. Arriving at the offices of the Sal- vation Army, they were surrounded by additional scores of police. After first refusing to meet with a rep- resentative delegation, the officers DR. EMIL EICHEL DENTIST 150 E. 93rd St. New York City Gor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8698 Fours: 9 a. m. to 8 p.m. Sun. 9 tol Member Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund OPTOMETRISTS OY (OPTICIANS 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE ® 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. 179" ST.KY ab 1061p $ TAY. of the Salvation Army were forced = to meet with a delegation from the Gold Dust Lodge. In meeting with the men, Col. Post derided the men for their —WILLIAM BELL————. OFFICIAL Optometrist eed — ALL COMRADES WELCOME — NEW CHINA march and refused every demand, sneering his replies to the spokes- man, When the delegates charged that workers were expelled for or- ganizational activities, Post de- clared: “We have a right to say who goes into the Gold Dust Lodge.” The delegates demanded workers’ control of the fiop house, free cloth- CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes PURE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway bet. 13th a 14th st. 106 EAST 14th STREET Near Foufth Aré., N. ¥. 6, Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-8237 De Luxe Cafeteria ing to all jobléss men, three square meals a day, adequate medical at- tention, and endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H, R. 7598). After tefusing all the demands of the jobless men, Post, when asked to ehdorsé the Workers’*Bill, turned to the spokes- man of the delegation and said with @ sheer: “You'd look fine sitting down and drawing ten dollars a week. I refuse to endorse any bill.” Similarly, every demand was met. with a derisive sneering reply. As the delegates turned to leave, the spokesman asked if this meant that all demands had been refused. Post replied that none of the men were from the Gold Dust Lodge. Hun- dreds of the men carried discon- tinued cards, having been expelled I. J. MORRIS, Ine. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickéns 2-12734—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order | Gpanam ave Coe. Blugt FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS Sokal Cafeteria 1689 PITKIN AVENUE GRAND OPENING TODAY WALTON CAFETERIA UNIVERSITY PLACE (Cor. 18th St.) ‘From a Bite to a Meal from the lodge for organization, Tobacco Workers Strike By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA. — Twenty-two workers of the Bagarte Cigar Shop are striking for a twenty per cent increase ih wages and better sani- is not because I broke any rules.’ tary conditions, The average wage here is $2 per week, Five-Day May Festival and Bazaar by May 23, 24, 25, 26, 27--Manhattan Lyceum, 66 FE. 4th Final meeting Friday, May 18th, 8:30 P, M,, Room 203, 50 E. 18th Street, — All red honor rolls, greetings and ads must be in at this meeting. sii anti